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Apple's latest laptop hits near all-time lows across storage and size options this weekend.
began Oct 29now
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“Amazon is taking $200 off nearly every model of the M5 MacBook Air this weekend, with matches of the best post-hike prices we've ever seen on the computer.”— MacRumors · full quotes →
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A Show HN project retranslates Contra's 6502 assembly into C and then WebAssembly, adding browser-based online co-op.
began Oct 31now
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“Then, i spent some time in building a harness and collect telemetry data in Mesen. Once, i had that: i just played the game in the emulator and asked Claude…”— tevlon · full quotes →
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The US Copyright Office has determined that only human authorship qualifies for copyright, rejecting media industry claims that investment…
began Oct 31now
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“For media bosses, copyright is a pseudo-property right, designed and operated to protect their bottom line. The point of copyright isn't to incentivize…”
— Cory Doctorow · full quotes →
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The Unix desktop environment created by Sun, HP, IBM and others is now publicly available for the first time.
began Oct 31now
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“The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is…”— SourceForge · full quotes →
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New in-app dining feature and a money-transfer tool in testing show TikTok extending well beyond short video.
began Oct 31now
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“TikTok is working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.”— TechCrunch · full quotes →
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A Fastmail blog post breaking down TLS, PKI and opportunistic server-to-server encryption circulates alongside an older computer.rip…
began Oct 29now
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“PKI combined with Certificate Transparency provides strong, practical assurance that your encrypted connection terminates at the server you intended to reach.”— Fastmail, email provider, blog author · Fastmail blog · full quotes →
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A coder used ML to learn the patterns in tiny JavaScript demos, aiming to finish works and inject personal style via AI.
began Oct 31now
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“I think you misunderstand the point of the demoscene. It's about mathematical prowess and the joy of puzzle-solving moreso than pretty pictures. Nobody in the…”— InvisibleUp · full quotes →
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V2H technology lets cars power homes during outages, but most manufacturers treat it as discharge-only mode without recharging capability.
began Oct 31now
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“One of the biggest misses in NACS (J3400) is bi-directional power in the spec. SAE J3400/2 will fix it.”— 1970-01-01 · full quotes →
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A video essay challenges conventional thinking about why alkaline batteries are being phased out.
began Oct 30now
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№154 (page 5) · newest development 10d ago · 4 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I have a battery hot take.”— TechConnectify, YouTube content creator · Mastodon · full quotes →
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A new tool for running AI agents with drastically lower memory usage than existing alternatives.
began Oct 31now
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“At its core a coding harness is essentially curl glued to popen(). This should not require gigabytes of RAM. So I built my own: Prospero.”— fovc · Hacker News · full quotes →
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Testing of Orkes' AI database revealed critical flaws in ACID guarantees, though most were fixed by version 1.1.18.
began Oct 31now
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“ParticleDB's claims of "Full ACID" were somewhat premature.”— Jepsen · Lobsters · full quotes →
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Deposition testimony contradicts Meta's claim that it never obtained the pirated book dataset via BitTorrent.
began Oct 31now
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“[d]ue to all this litigation”— Stephen Roller, Former Meta researcher · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A technical breakdown of why 100%-CPU databases are often memory-bound, using a GROUP BY benchmark, gains traction across HN, Reddit and…
began Oct 29now
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“When you see your databases CPU at 100%, what is it actually doing?”— pivotlake.io blog post, Technical blog · Pivot Lake blog · full quotes →
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Apple Intelligence will reach Chinese iPhone users in December with Alibaba's Qwen AI model powering the services, ending regulatory…
began Oct 29now
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“Apple's long-awaited artificial intelligence features will be officially launched in China in December, ending two years of regulatory uncertainty”— SCMP (reporting) · full quotes →
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The distribution outlined development plans in its October 2026 status report, with a stable release targeted for Christmas.
began Oct 31now
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“Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release…”— Michael Larabel, Phoronix founder and principal author · full quotes →
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Apple ends over a decade of resistance to touch Macs, but reviewers call the touchscreen feature an afterthought bolted onto an otherwise…
began Oct 23now
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“But the touchscreen feels like an afterthought.”— Antonio G. Di Benedetto · full quotes →
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The iPad mini 8 packs 4,900 mAh versus 5,034 mAh previously, offset by efficiency gains from the A20 Pro chip and OLED display.
began Oct 27now
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“Apple's website lists identical battery life estimates for both models, so it appears that the improved power efficiency of the A20 Pro chip in the new iPad…”— MacRumors · full quotes →
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Open-source 4-layer board design lets a computer make calls, send texts, and receive LTE data over a single USB-C cable.
began Oct 31now
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“Yes, the Quectel EC25-EUX supports VoLTE natively on the modem baseband, and from the board's perspective the audio path is identical: the modem handles the…”— abijahkaj · full quotes →
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Hyperscaler earnings reveal contradictory evidence about AI's economic viability, leaving bulls and bears both claiming vindication.
began Oct 31now
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“Bulls and bears alike have evidence to validate their wildest dreams — or their worst nightmares.”— Axios · full quotes →
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A developer's nuanced take on AI capabilities versus actual software revolution prompts discussion about technology hype and ethical…
began Oct 30now
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“Creo que el fediverso tiene un problema de aceptación del rol de la IA en ingeniería del software desde hace un año…”— javisamo@mastodon.social, Fediverse participant · Mastodon · full quotes →
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London's High Court sided with Ofcom in one of the first major tests of the 2023 Online Safety Act's information-gathering powers.
began Oct 30now
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“London's High Court ruled for Ofcom against Meta, TikTok and X.”— @osint613, Social media poster · X · full quotes →
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A hidden feature collects your custom dictionary locally and sends typing samples to Microsoft servers without explicit user consent.
began Oct 31now
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“There's a setting in Windows 11 that has been quietly logging words it doesn't recognize since the day you set up your PC. Everything gets saved to a file on…”— MakeUseOf · full quotes →
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@joeblau says a single prompt let him rebuild subvocal speech recognition for AirPods Pro 3 in minutes, drawing wide attention online.
began Oct 30now
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“I recreated subvocal in 9 minutes with one prompt for AirPods Pro 3.”— @joeblau, Developer · X · full quotes →
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Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic are staffing up community relations roles as data-center expansion faces growing community resistance.
began Oct 30now
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“proactive storytelling”— Microsoft, Job posting · Semafor · full quotes →
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Carolyn Marvin, 78, was cited for disorderly conduct after repeatedly impeding Uber Eats autonomous delivery vehicles as a protest against…
began Oct 31now
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“I also think that I have a First Amendment right to protest the abuses of corporations in public space, in the same public space that the robots are occupying.”— Carolyn Marvin · full quotes →
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Editors using AI detectors are flagging human-written work, leaving writers uncertain what triggered accusations.
began Oct 30now
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“As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely accused of using AI are left…”— NPR · full quotes →
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Elon Musk's company is negotiating with infrastructure firms including Crown Castle to build out a rival to Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
began Oct 31now
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“You can assume that we're talking to all parties”— Chris Hillabrant, Crown Castle CEO · full quotes →
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New Insider preview builds let users toggle Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and power settings without leaving Xbox Game Bar, alongside expanded search…
began Oct 30now
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“The Xbox shortcuts let you control things like Bluetooth, WiFi, and power settings without having to exit gaming mode.”— The Verge · full quotes →
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Developer Jordi Gómez Hernández names a technique for writing regression tests that demonstrate bugs before fixes are applied.
began Oct 31now
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“For me, a key point of this is to make the change of behavior clear, complementing the PR description. If an 'expect fail' doesn't clearly communicate what…”— epage · full quotes →
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An OS News deep-dive into Raymond Chen's claims about PC force-shutdown timing uncovers a discrepancy that puzzles the technical community.
began Oct 31now
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“These emergency kernel dumps are internally classified as "long power button hold" (LPBH) failures. One of the pieces of information recorded in these…”— OS News article · full quotes →
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Nvidia's Q2 networking revenues of $17.5B exceed Cisco's total quarterly revenue, driven by integrated compute-and-networking architecture…
began Oct 31now
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“Customers choose Nvidia for its tightly integrated compute and networking architecture, optimized for AI workloads”— Sameh Boujelbene, Dell'Oro Group analyst · full quotes →
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Shopping guide rounds up self-emptying robot vacuum discounts ahead of the holiday shopping season.
began Oct 31now
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“If you're buying a robot vacuum, it should be self-emptying. It just wouldn't make sense not to buy one with that feature, given that the whole point is to…”— Tabitha Britt · full quotes →
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Apple's assembly partner signals confidence in handling holiday orders for the $2,000 foldable, which has seen inventory sell out rapidly.
began Oct 30now
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“So I'm quite confident that we can fulfill the demand”— Michael Chiang · full quotes →
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A parent with no electronics experience created Marelleo, an RFID-based toy that plays stories, as alternative to subscription-based…
began Oct 27now
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“The gesture is perfect. The business model, much less so. All these boxes work the same way: the object sells for a more or less reasonable price, and the…”— singpolyma · Hacker News / Lobsters · full quotes →
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A Gemma 4 model running on a TPU aboard Google's prototype satellite generated a haiku, confirming the chip operates in space.
began Oct 30now
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“Verifying our TPUs can reliably execute workloads in space paves the way for our next milestone of twin interconnected satellites in 2027.”— Google · full quotes →
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